Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White hair. Depigmentation due to prolonged worry. (He discredits the legend that hair turns white overnight due to sudden fright...
...were plunging down at the rate of ten points a day, Mr. Whitney temporarily halted the crash. Representing the hastily-formed pool of Morgan and other bankers to save the market, he bid high on 25,000 shares of Steel and saved the day, thus creating the "Black Thursday" legend. Later, as President of the Exchange, he was a truculent critic of the Administration, since he opposed federal regulation of security markets. To end the feud between Wall Street and the S.E.C., friends and foes forced Whitney to retire in 1935, and a New Dealer replaced...
...agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp family, where according to legend when a button is pushed in the art department it still registers a call from "Mrs. Cramp's bedroom...
...impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar of fire. To this day they will not use or carry away the metallic meteorites which have been found in abundance in and near the crater. These fragments, ranging from a few ounces...
Four years ago the first volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...